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Re: localeconf package



On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 21:07, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> I liked very much the idea of gnome-sudo... I thought I would try it
> and probably use it on my own programs... then I tried:
> 
> $ gnome-sudo -u root /usr/bin/gnome-apt
> 
> typed my password at the box that was displayed and then... nothing
> happened... 

gnome-sudo uses sudo to do its thing.  If you don't have sudo working,
then gnome-sudo won't work.

Try opening a terminal and doing something like "sudo ls <dir>", where
<dir> is a directory only root can read.  If you see a directory
listing, you're in business.  If not, then you probably need to set up
sudo; check the /etc/sudoers file.

> then I thought that could be the problem... su'ed to root on a
> terminal and ran gnomecc from inside it, now the locale conflet
> is started *but* on another gnomecc that it runs by itself

Yes; this happens because the other gnomecc isn't accessible to the
capplet run as root.  This is the way gnomecc works.

> xserver-common's is failing this way:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/xserver-common-configlet-capplet", line 146, in ?
>     pagename = configlet_instance.get_page_display_name(page)
> AttributeError: Dexlet instance has no attribute 'get_page_display_name'

This is a bug in the capplet system, which should be fixed in the latest
version of configlet-frontends in unstable.

> after opening its own gnomecc also... important to note, also,
> that there's that fancy "Debian" "root", but there's also
> one "*MISSINGNAME*" in which the X server's configuration
> is shown (locale's is not... I instaled locale's after....)

If you install the latest configlet-frontends, you should see that go
away.  Running "update-configlets" as root should also do the trick.




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